Denmark is occupied by Nazi forces. Resistance fighters Flame (Thure Lindhardt) and Citron (Mads Mikkelsen) work confidential for the Holger Danske clique committing acts of incapacitate and assassinating Danish informers. Unified in their hatred of enemies of release, the younger, optimistic Flame dreams of openly taking up arms against the occupying power??”including local Gestapo leader Hoffmann (Christian Berkel)??”whereas the more sensitive Citron finds himself drawn aid into the politics of resistance. Firm friends and associates prior to the tenure, Conflagration an... d Citron's fearless acts soon denouement in their stain. But when Flame is commanded to beautiful people his girlfriend Ketty (Stine Stengade), a confusing courier, he and Citron begin to question who their real enemies are.
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Kenneth Turan

Flame & Citron is an old-fashioned vehicle beautifully restored and revitalized for the modern age. Its focus on the heroic behavior of a pair of Danish anti-Nazi resistance fighters may sound traditional, but the tone throughout is more nihilistic than idealistic, and that makes a considerable difference.

Certainly, the ingredients of this Danish film, co-written and directed by Ole Christian Madsen and based on true events, are familiar. Flame & Citron is chock full of plot and incident, action and romance, loyalty and betrayal. Everyone has a jaunty nickname -- Flame is named for his bright red hair -- and the love of bravery and danger are in the air.

What's different here, it gradually becomes clear, is that events are taking place in a...

Flammen & CitronenTwo comrades in the Danish resistance during WWII begin to question their work as loyalties become increasingly murky. Thriller starring Mads Mikkelsen and Thure Lindhardt
Bent (Thure Lindhardt), codename Flame, and J??rgen (Mads Mikkelsen), codename Citron, are comrades in Holger Danske, an arm of the Danish resistance during the German occupation. Denmark has been occupied since 1940, and Bent reminisces in voiceover about how the Germans established themselves in the country, working with Danish Nazis and collaborators.
J??rgen, we learn, has been nauseous since the invasion and can only counteract the sickness by working around the clock. Bent, meanwhile, had been sent to Germany by his hotelier father in 1940 for training in the catering business and speaks Ge...

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